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Ken Follett: A Column of Fire

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The saga that has enthralled the millions of readers of and now continues with Ken Follett’s magnificent, gripping . Christmas 1558, and young Ned Willard returns home to Kingsbridge to find his world has changed. The ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn by religious hatred. Europe is in turmoil as high principles clash bloodily with friendship, loyalty and love, and Ned soon finds himself on the opposite side from the girl he longs to marry, Margery Fitzgerald. Then Elizabeth Tudor becomes queen and all of Europe turns against England. The shrewd, determined young monarch sets up the country’s first secret service to give her early warning of assassination plots, rebellions and invasion plans. Elizabeth knows that alluring, headstrong Mary Queen of Scots lies in wait in Paris. Part of a brutally ambitious French family, Mary has been proclaimed the rightful ruler of England, with her own supporters scheming to get rid of the new queen. Over a turbulent half-century, the love between Ned and Margery seems doomed, as extremism sparks violence from Edinburgh to Geneva. With Elizabeth clinging precariously to her throne and her principles, protected by a small, dedicated group of resourceful spies and courageous secret agents, it becomes clear that the real enemies — then as now — are not the rival religions. The true battle pitches those who believe in tolerance and compromise against the tyrants who would impose their ideas on everyone else — no matter the cost.

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The pictures on the walls were of the times when he had been brave, or clever, or kind. They made the house a happy place. And the bad things he had done, the lies he had told and the people he had betrayed and the times he had been cowardly, were scrawled in ugly letters on the wall of the outhouse.

His memory formed the library of the house. He could pick out any volume and instantly be transported to another place and time: Kingsbridge Grammar School in his innocent childhood, Hatfield Palace in the thrilling year of 1558, the banks of the Seine river on the bloodstained night of St Bartholomew, the Channel during the battle with the Spanish armada. Strangely, the character of Ned that lived in those stories did not remain the same. It seemed to him sometimes that quite a different person had learned Latin, someone else had fallen under the spell of young Princess Elizabeth, another character had stabbed a man with no nose in the graveyard of the church of St-Julien-le-Pauvre, and yet another had watched the fireships scatter the galleons off Calais. But of course they were all just different versions of himself, the owner of the house.

And one day soon the place would fall down, as old buildings did, and then, quite quickly, it would all turn to dust.

With that thought he drifted off to sleep.

Acknowledgements

My historical advisors for A Column of Fire were: Mercedes García-Arenal on Spain; the late Roderick Graham on Scotland; Robert Hutchinson on England; Guy Le Thiec on France; and Geoffrey Parker on the Netherlands.

I was also helped by: Anne-Laure Béatrix and Béatrice Vingtrinier at the Louvre in Paris; Dermot Burke at Hatfield House; Richard Dabb and Timothy Long at the Museum of London; Simon Lennox, Trisha Muir and Richard Waters at Loch Leven Castle; Sarah Pattinson at Carlisle Castle; Les Read on English sixteenth-century theatre; and Elizabeth Taylor at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

My editors were: Cherise Fisher, Leslie Gelbman, Phyllis Grann, Neil Nyren, Brian Tart and Jeremy Trevathan.

Friends and family who gave advice included: John Clare, Barbara Follett, Emanuele Follett, Tony McWalter, Chris Manners, Charlotte Quelch, John Studzinski, Jann Turner and Kim Turner.

All of you helped me write a better book, and I give you my heartfelt thanks.

Who is Real?

Readers sometimes ask me which of the characters in a novel are real historical figures and which are fictional. For those who are curious about this, here’s a list of the real people in A Column of Fire.

ENGLAND

Mary Tudor, queen of England

Elizabeth Tudor, her half-sister, later queen

Tom Parry, Elizabeth’s treasurer

Sir William Cecil, advisor to Elizabeth

Robert Cecil, William’s son

Sir Francis Walsingham, spymaster

Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester

Sir Nicholas Throckmorton

Nicholas Heath, Lord Chancellor

Sir Francis Drake, sea captain

Sir John Hawkins, naval commander, also said to be a pirate

Sir Francis Throckmorton

George Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury

Bess of Harwick

Sir Amias Paulet

Gilbert Gifford, spy

William Davison, temporary secretary of state to Queen Elizabeth

Anthony Babington, traitor

Margaret Clitheroe, Catholic martyr

Howard of Effingham, Lord High Admiral

Philip Herbert, earl of Pembroke, earl of Montgomery

Edmund Doubleday

Guy Fawkes

Thomas Percy

FRANCE

François, duke of Guise

Henri, son of François

Charles, cardinal Lorraine, brother of François

Marie de Guise, sister of François and mother of Mary Queen of Scots

Louis ‘Bottles’, Cardinal de Guise

Anna d’Este, duchess of Guise

Henri II, king of France

Caterina de’ Medici, queen of France

Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henri II

Children of Henri and Caterina:

Francis II, king of France

Charles IX, king of France

Henri III, king of France

Margot, queen of Navarre

Mary Stuart, queen of Scots and queen of France

Antoine, king of Navarre

Henri, son of Antoine, later King Henri IV of France

Louis, prince of Condé

Gaspard de Coligny, admiral of France

Charles de Louviers, assassin

William Allen, leader of the exiled English Catholics

Ambroise Paré, royal surgeon

Jean de Poltrot, assassin

Jean de Hangest

Jean Le Charron, provost of Paris

SCOTLAND

James Stuart, illegitimate half-brother of Mary Queen of Scots

James Stuart, son of Mary Queen of Scots, later King James VI of Scotland

and King James I of England

Anne of Denmark, queen of Scotland

John Leslie, bishop of Ross

Sir William Douglas

Lady Agnes, his wife

George ‘pretty Geordie’, their son

Willie Douglas, Sir William’s illegitimate son

SPAIN

King Felipe II

Count of Feria, diplomat

Bishop Álvaro de la Quadra

Bernardino de Mendoza, ambassador to London

Alonso Perez de Guzman, 7th duke of Medina Sidonia, admiral of the Spanish armada

NETHERLANDS

Margherita of Parma, governor, illegitimate half-sister of King Felipe II

Pieter Titelmans, grand inquisitor

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